Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Turner

In 90 percent of the cases, this would have gone to a runoff, ... We believed that all of the other candidates were planning for a runoff, but we wanted to get it in one shot.

Scott Stevens

I guess I wouldn't have believed it. But it's been a pleasure being part of the rebuilding process, being a piece of the puzzle as we built a championship team. It was nice being part of that and being able to win three Stanley Cups and sort of put hockey on the map in New Jersey.

Joanne Harris

I had a great grandmother who believed in so many strange superstitions. She used to tell the future from the things that catch on to the hem of your skirt when you've been sewing, and different colored threads would mean different things... Of course, all that influenced me quite a lot as a child.

Marjane Satrapi

If the majority of people were right, we'd be living in paradise. But we are not living in paradise, we are living in hell. What does it mean? That means the majority of people are wrong. So I never believed what people told me.

I just loved the energy that coach brought to practice every day and the way she never gave up on us, always believed in us. She made us love the game even more, and we played our hearts out every single time we stepped on the court.

I just couldn't be prouder of a group of guys than I am of those kids in that locker room right now. They battled all season. We were struggling early in the year, but they never quit. And because of that, we're going to the state tournament. This is something special for all of us. I'm just glad we gave the fans what they wanted. We believed we could do it, and so did our fans. Now we get to play in Madison.

Jim Johnson

I really believed we wouldn't lose focus and J-Mac wouldn't let us lose focus. He's unbelievable. His heart and soul is into this team. As much as this is such a great thing for him in his life, he wants to win a sectional championship worse than any of us.

Michael Keaton

I really believed that Batman had the potential to be one of the coolest guys in cinema.

Mary Pierce

I really believed it. I felt it very strongly.

I really believed in the stocks in this book -- I own more of these stocks than I've ever owned in any other book I've written.

I really believed in my heart it wasn't going to come.

Paul Azinger

I really believed I could do both, but the realization is that you can't. To play decently, you have to be single minded.

Clearly, we believed we conducted our promotions in good faith and that our conduct conformed with state law.

His boundless energy stands as testimony to what he believed in. He was a Republican when being a Republican wasn't cool, both in Massachusetts and in Florida.

Studs Terkel

His ingenuity and his faith in the good taste of people are what made WFMT. He believed the public ? and by that he meant ordinary people ? deserved the best in broadcasting.

Studs Terkel

His ingenuity and his faith in the good taste of people are what made WFMT, ... He believed the public--and by that he meant ordinary people--deserved the best in broadcasting.

By the end of the year, we had kids believing and that was a benchmark. By the end of the season they truly believed they belonged wrestling on the varsity level. They believed in the program and what I'm teaching them is going to help them.

By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she had received the spies with peace.

Honestly, I believed we could win this game.

Honestly, I believed we could compete for the league championship. To get to the finals exceeded my expectations. Being realistic, these other teams get here year in and year out. We hadn't been since 1992.

Brad Garrett

He said he believed that it was wrong that the United States -- particularly the CIA -- was going into Muslim countries and, in his words, manipulating the governance there to the U.S. best interest. And he says it's wrong and he wanted to make a statement,

John Riggins

He said he believed in the golden rule. The man with the gold makes all the rules.

John Riggins

He said he believed in the golden rule,

For myself, I believed that that 13th of March should see a fight to the finish, cost what it might! for if Bloemfontein was to be taken, it would only be over our dead bodies.

Paul Coffey

I remembered back to Italy about six years ago when fighter jets clipped the gondola. Twelve people were killed. That incident flashed into my mind. Everyone's jaws just dropped. No one believed it. It was one of those strange things you don't expect - next thing you know there's a plane going over the building.

I looked and said, 'Papa, it's a big fish!'. I don't think he believed me because I usually say that for her anyway, no matter what she's catching. But she was having trouble reeling this one in.

Cory Booker

I live in Brick Towers, a public housing project in Newark's Central Ward. I moved in when the projects were privately owned by a man who the residents and I believed was a grade A slumlord.

Joe Carter

I honestly believed I would make it. I had the desire. A lot of people have the ability, but they don't put forth the effort.

Jonathan Safran Foer

How could this world be so unlike the world that I believed I was living in? I can't describe it. Do I not want to describe it, or do I simply not possess the vocabulary?

I don't think Maurice really believed this, ... Maurice was always provocative.

I don't think I really believed it to be honest, until now.

Charles Gibson

but I never believed for a minute Peter was serious. He loved this job. It was his core being.

Before the storm, nobody really believed this would happen, ... Now everybody knows that this can happen, so I think it'll change.